'Tis but a crash!!
A crash?! Your datas gone!
No it isn't.
LOOK!
It's only a reboot.
A ReBOOT?!
C'mon ye PANSY! Reformat blindly and accept your fate like everyone else in the Micro$oft universe!!
Get Linux. Never crash or cry (or pay out the nose for your OS or updates) again.
"Remember... No matter where you go... there you are..."
-Buckaroo Banzai
fancypiper wrote:That's the wrong penguin. I was referring to Tux, the Linux penguin mascot.
Look over your sholder, Bill, it's the dreaded Penguin.
I wish I could find the image I wanted to post, but this will have to do.
YES, Tux is coming, faster and faster he is taking over not only the workplace but the home user environment as well!!! Thank the powers that be for Linux stability, flexibility, and endless tinkerage
"Remember... No matter where you go... there you are..."
-Buckaroo Banzai
Tell us something.: I'm a New York native who gradually slid west and landed in the Phoenix area. I like riding on the back seat of a tandem bicycle. I like dogs and have three of them. I am a sometime actor and an all the time teacher, husband, and dad.
fancypiper wrote:That's the wrong penguin. I was referring to Tux, the Linux penguin mascot.
Look over your sholder, Bill, it's the dreaded Penguin.
I wish I could find the image I wanted to post, but this will have to do.
I have a theory that I have. I'll bet that one of these days not too far off we'll see quality Chinese-made linux-based computers for sale here in the US at extremely low prices like $200.00 or less.
Paul wrote:
I have a theory that I have. I'll bet that one of these days not too far off we'll see quality Chinese-made linux-based computers for sale here in the US at extremely low prices like $200.00 or less.
At which point the Bush administration will introduce tariffs.
Don't know about the actual amounts but it sounds reasonable to expect. I hope it does come to pass though I am not fond of slave-labor Chinese manufacturing. But Gates et al have had their chance to get rich off the novelty of personal computing.
I have been ignoring bells and whistles for years but am in the minority, I guess. I think a computer should be considered a tool, not an interactive personal assistant, but that's just me. Steve Jobs wants it "Elegant." Because, in doing all that assistant stuff, you get into the whole extension thing, memory sucking, etc etc. Many people don't know that the Fax software extensions shipped with Macs actually interferes with Microsoft Word!!! Took me a year to figure that one out and I have a $80 FAX machine hooked to a phone line, thank you very much, so I wish it never would have been installed.
I do like Stickies tho. Saves me from actually writing on the post-its and gunking up the monitor.
Great fortunes have been made in proprietary software and OSs... whether this contracts drastically remains to be seen but it seems inevitable.
You still have to know too much about your computer to make it work, in my opinion. What a contrast with TV sets! They just worked and I still don't exactly know how. Further, they made it hard to take off the back so I wouldn't electrocute myself finding out.[/i]
PS. Special partisan award to Bloomfield for managing to get a negative in about Bush in otherwise unrelated topic.
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